Part-time lecturer

Honorary president

Itsuo Sakane

Professor emeritus

Tadashi Yokoyama

Masahiro Miwa

President | Professor

E-mail :

mmiwa@iamas.ac.jp

A musical composer. He has presented a great number of works with algorithmic composition, a method of composition that utilizes computers. He has won 1st place in the 10th The IRINO PRIZE, 1st place in the 14th Concorso Internationale Luigi Russoro, won the 14th Akutagawa Award for Music Composition, and the 2010 Minister of Edcuation Award for Fine Arts (Development of the Arts Division), in addition to many other awards. In 2007, his “Reverse Simulation Music” won the Golden Nica Award in the Digital Music Division of the Ars Electronica.

Nobuya Suzuki

Professor | Dean

Born in Tokyo in 1969. The subject of his research is prototype creation related to media and products that utilize information and communication technology and it’s interaction design or service design. His activities cross multiple disciplines, such as art, design and engineering, and he displays those activities at exhibitions while managing said exhibitions.” His work “Three Men Three Legs” won an award at the Prix Ars Electronica 96, and his “A Project of Multimedia Installation for Hon’ami Koetsu” won the highest award in the Exhibition Event Division of the Multimedia Grand Prix 2000.

Ptolemy, a multi-projection system that uses a mobile mirror, IPSJ, Interaction 2007 [2007]

The Differences in a Dialog Found in Group and Study of Evaluation, IPSJ, FIT2007 [2007]

Network-mediated System for Sharing a Virtual Body among Three Users, "Three men three legs", VRSJ [2007]

Tomoko Kanayama

Professor | Director of the RCIC

E-mail :

kanatomo@iamas.ac.jp

Born in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture. Her main research themes are regional community, communication, the empowerment of citizens and media. Recently, she has been working on the design to insert the design, art and manufacturing of IAMAS into the regional society and thereby create new needs. Her main literary works include Community Media (Keio University Press), NPO no media senryaku (GAKUBUNSHA), and Netto jidai no shakai kankei shihonkeisei to shimin ishiki (Keio University Press) among others. In March 2014, she is planning on publishing Chiisana rajiokyoku to komyunithi no saisei~311 kara 962 nichi no kiroku, which consolidates the two and a half year investigation of the Great East Japan earthquake.

Shinjiro Maeda

Born in Osaka in 1969. He continues to present various works – including movies, video art and documents – at film festivals and exhibitions. Collaborating with artists from theatre, art and other areas, he actively proceeds with plans for exhibitions. He has been directing the DVD label SOL CHORD since 2005. His web movie project “BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW” won the Excellence Award in the Art Division of the 16th Japan Media Arts Festival.

Masayuki Akamatsu

A media artist, born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1961. Graduated from the Kyoto City University of Arts Graduate School of Arts with a doctorate in art. He creates interactive music and visual works, and in recent years, with the theme of mobility and reality, he has been studying the influence technology has on people and society through his creations. His representative works include "Max Textbook" and "iOS Textbook" for books, “Banner” and “Sekai Camera (Tonchidot)” for apps, and “Uroboros Torch” for installations.

Activities

"DSP Summer School/DSP Super School" IAMAS, etc [1999-2004]

DecorReality etc. iPhone Application [2007-]

Yasuhiko Ando

Professor

E-mail :

ad@iamas.ac.jp

A contemporary artist, born in Shiga Prefecture in 1953. Has been creating installations that adapt well-known stories as part of the art unit “KOSUGI+ANDO” since 1983. Since the 90s, he has actively assimilated computer-controlled images and objects into his art works, and, through those works, ponders the influence that technology exerts on our lives. Also, along with creating works, he has also worked as the director for “SKIN DIVE – Open the Circuit to the Senses” (Kyoto Art Center, 1999) and the Ogaki Biennale 2013.

Shigeru Kobayashi

Works on the development of “Gainer” and “Arduino Fio”, open source tool kits that connect computer screens with the physical world that people can see, touch and feel. While participating in the “Maker movement”, a movement that stimulates people’s fundamental desire to “make something” and share that joy, and following his belief that by changing the relationship from manufacturer and consumer to “maker” and user we can aim for a richer world, he is currently working on activities that will become the catalyst for that.

Awards

Takahiro Kobayashi

Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1969. He has a doctorate in research on fruit harvesting systems that pair together position measurement technology that uses image processing, and soft robot hand mechanisms. In recent years, while developing devices for disabled people and those that are not proficient with IT, he has been conducting trials with agricultural themes. After realizing a dead-end in the small scale (general scale in Japan) rice cultivation, his immediate concern is to aim for the implementation of sustainable farming by doing things such as establishing agricultural facilities equipped with solar power generation in farmlands.

"Collaborative development of an electric mail system that emphasizes operability” [2007]

Masahiro Kobayashi

Professor

E-mail :

masahiro@iamas.ac.jp

Born in Tokyo Metropolis in 1959. After settling himself at the apexes of medicine, philosophy and art, he has developed a unique body theory. He cross-disciplinarily examines the body as seen from medical history and medical anthropology, classical theatre (kabuki, bunraku, Noh, and rakugo), and modern thought (particularly formative culture). He holds various lectures on kabuki and rakugo in various locations.

Masami Hirabayashi

Professor

E-mail :

hrr@iamas.ac.jp

Born in Nagano Prefecture in 1964. Sponsor for the NxPC.Lab. His research field is communication systems and real-world interface interaction. Beginning with web structural analysis and positional information based research/works, in recent years he has been conducting research on systems for enhancing musical experiences. Building on his experience at countless club events, under the name of the NxPC.Lab, he has been conducting possible and practical developments at music venues by holding club events.

Akitsugu Maebayashi

Professor

E-mail :

maebayashi@iamas.ac.jp

He has presented works that, by treating “auditory senses” and “sound” as an interface between the body and environment, and technologically interposing them, reevaluates our perception. Currently, he is positioning and creating a “work” as a device to evoke imagination towards the connection between body and place, and reconnect the two. His representative works include “AUDIBLE DISTANCE”, “Sonic Interface”, “A Piece for Metronome and Anechoic Room”, and “103.1dB”, among others.

John Cage 100th anniversary Countdown Event, The National Museum of Art, Osaka [2007]

3rd Nanjing Triennial, Nanjing Museum [2008]

Open Space 2009, ICC [2009]

Awards

Runner-up, ICC Biennale 97 [1997]

Honorary Mention, ARS Electronica 98 Interactive Art Division [1998]

Ishida Foundation Honorary Mention in Art [2000]

Work Storage

NTT Intercommunication Center (ICC)/ Audible Distance [1998-]

Shigeki Yoshida

Professor

E-mail :

shige@iamas.ac.jp

Born in Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture in 1962. His specialty is computer networks. He has been engaged in things like the WIDE Project since before the dawning of the internet, working with ultradispersion information retrieval and autonomous data distribution as his themes. During that period, he was also involved with the construction of network systems at educational institutions and administrational organizations. In recent years, his main activities have included educational enlightenment and community construction, as well as the social application of IT.

Translation/Editing

Activities

Gifu Innovation Center, Administrator

Member of various high school committees in Gifu

Kyo Akabane

Associate professor

Putting his focus on interaction design, he does research on expressions that use technology. Also, as a member of Generative Idea Flow, he deals with research on the development of workshops that handle media expressions and the archive process for sharing that content.
For his main activities, he has “Pina” (Ag Ltd.) and “Media art and expression foundations workshop”（Agency for Cultural Affairs Project to support for the nurturing of media arts creators）.

Activities/Exhibitions/etc.

「The Torino Creativity Workshop」Invited to participate in workshop for development and exhibition of toy concepts [2008]

“Research for the physical interface of a mobile terminal” Collaboration with the Toshiba Design Center, Designated Research: “Research for Interaction Design of Next Generation Mobile Terminal” [2008-2009]

James Gibson

Before moving to Japan in 2005 he worked as a Service Designer at live|work and a Human Interface & Research Designer at Sony Design Centre Europe & Tokyo. Currently researching the relationships between design, craft & art, and their roles in our media-rich lifestyles, while exploring ways to tackle social, environmental, & sustainable design issues.

Affiliated Projects

Research Areas

Class Subjects

Employment

collect.apply

live|work

Sony Design Centre Europe

Obsolete

Ryota Kuwakubo

Associate professor

E-mail :

ryota@iamas.ac.jp

After creating “BITMAN”, a collaboration work with Maywa Denki, in 1998, he began creating works that utilized electronics. Since then, he has created an original style that is referred to as “device art”. After the 2010 presentation of his installation “The Tenth Sentiment”, he has been undertaking works that, through the use of light and shadow, spin together the experiences of the viewer. His other representative works include “Video Bulb”, “PLX”, and “Nikodama”.

Recent Research Projects

"The Creation and Development of Expressive Technology in Device Art" (2005-2009)

Akira Segawa

Associate professor

E-mail :

segawa@iamas.ac.jp

Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1970. Works with the total design and direction of publication tools for exhibitions and academic conferences revolving around graphic design to signs and record brochures. In recent years, he has been focusing on the relationship between design and environment that envelops our lives, including diet, transportation and historic landmarks.

Shigeru Matsui

Born in Tokyo, 1975. As a poet, in recent years, Matsui has been creating works in collaboration with sound designers and visual artists. His research is based on visual media, and works with a focus on the expressive trend of contemporary art that has mass media as a denominator. Among his research results, he wrote the thesis “Tsutomu Konno: A Faction in Search of Radical Expressions in Television”, supervised the “Arata Isozaki 12×5＝60” exhibition (The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art), and participated in the “Masaki Fujihata Expanded Animation Works” program (Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions), among other achievements.

Affiliated Projects

Class Subjects

Koji Yamada

Associate professor

Originally from Aichi Prefecture. Has engaged in research on image processing and recognition, as well as research on the kansei information processing of character fonts, etc. Since then, he became interested in networks of IPv6 and the like, and has been conducting research related to the usage of networks and information-sharing. Also, he has recently been working on research that would provide technical support to disabled people, as well as methods that utilize networks and methods that utilize tablet devices.

Yasuko Imura

Lecturer

E-mail :

imura@iamas.ac.jp

By re-thinking the historical classification of art and design, Imura researches the cross-sectional expression domain of artistic and commercial activities, as well as industry. In 2013, she received her doctorate from the Kyoto City University of Arts. Her doctoral dissertation was “Art criticism in the 1960s: from the perspective of Yoshiaki Tōno”.